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There's so many people that get these drugs completely legally then get hooked on them and next thing you know their on heroin which is illegal. I really think
by thorwasdfasdf 7y ago
There's so many people that get these drugs completely legally then get hooked on them and next thing you know their on heroin which is illegal. I really think we need to restore some balance and get rid of the legal stuff (like the so called harmless back-ache medicine, etc) people are getting addicted to in the first place.
- xyzzy_plugh 7y agoThis is the attitude that gets us in this mess in the first place. It should all be legal, but the controls in place are harmful. Too much oversight in the wrong places, not enough in the right places.
- freedomben 7y agoHave you ever needed opioid pain killers to deal with either an acute or chronic pain condition?
- seattle_spring 7y agoI can answer that for you: no, they haven't.
- merpnderp 7y agoIf they'd witnessed someone they love, living for weeks in mind shattering pain, sobbing just getting up to go to the bathroom, unable to sleep or think through the pain, waiting on a doc to prescribe real painkillers, but the doc is too afraid of the DEA, maybe they'd change their minds. Or maybe they'd point to some random overdose in the newspaper and tell their spouse/mother/father/child to suck it up and stop crying, it's only major nerve branches slowly dying, and who can't rub some dirt on that?
- thorwasdfasdf 7y agoBeing addicted to heroin is even worse. You should see how the people addicted to drugs end up: they have all the pain you just mentioned but with the additional burden of having to buy 150$ worth of drugs everyday, just so they can function.
- magduf 7y agoI haven't, but I have had surgery where they just automatically handed me a scrip for them even though I never had enough pain to bother using them. They hand out opioids like candy; it's no wonder so many people are addicted to them.